New experiences worth an heavy baggage The following are words from one of the Italian team members Claudia Gullà who participated in the youth exchange “Musical Trip…” held in Alzedziai, Lithuania from 5th to 14th of July. These words are the perfect image of what an Erasmus+ project means and the huge potential of young people participating in it. As …

MEET Project loves to tell about entrepreneurship especially when these enterprises are able to deliver a positive impact on the environment. Greenrail is the perfect example of an young italian SME producing an actual impact on our life and on mobility, namely the train industry, The Greenrail ecosustainable sleepers are going to revolutionize the train mobility thanks to its exclusive …

ExFadda is a project of local development created by a group of associations and companies operating in the field of culture, social and communication. The project leader is the Sandei company of San Vito deiNormanni where the project was born. ExFadda is a place where to share resources, create collaborative processes, create events and develop ideas. One of the most …

Social innovation has several way to express itself, the Emporio Solidale is one of these cases. It is a way for the local community to be resilient and to help its members at risk of social exclusion and to avoid that people with economic difficulties ends in the hand of the criminal organizations acting as an alternative form of State, …

While celebrating the 31st anniversary of the Schengen agreements Europe i closing its borders to people struggling to escape from wars and persecutions and build a better life for them and their children. How can Europe overcome individualism and fear of the others? How could the United States of Europe be reached? Fra poco più di un mese, il 14 …

ICECAIRO is a Social Enterprise, and part of the international icehubs network, that started with iceaddis in Ethiopia and icebauhaus in Germany. icecairo is a community-powered green tech innovation hub. We work together to solve environmental and social challenges using the brilliance of the icecairo community, and to turn these challenges in to green businesses. www.icecairo.com Una delle forme più innovative e …

Speaking about the social innovation, we had the opportunity to interview Patrizia Tomasich, President of the cooperative which manage the first private not for profit Children Museum in Italy. Explora is located in Rome and is a concrete example of what social innovation is and how non formal education and culture could be made mainstreamed also thanks to the contribution …

Rione Sanità, in Naples, is a neighborhood known for preserving an historical and artistic heritage of great value but, as so often happen, left in oblivion. A group of young people of the place, who participated in the community life of the parish and unfortunately did not have jobs decided, after the arrival of the priest Antonio Loffredo, to find …

In her book Falce, martello e cuore di Gesù. Storie verosimili di donne e occupazioni di terre in Sicilia, Gisella Modica, Sicilian writer and feminist, collects the stories of eleven women who participated in the Sicilian peasant movement between 1944 and 1950. She starts her journey along the streets of Corleone, San Giuseppe Jato , Polizzi and others to meet …

After the introduction into the Italian law of the Benefit Society, the Italian legislator is the first in the world aiming to regulate by law the still not well defined phenomenon of the sharing economy. Let’s try to better understand what’s inside the Act 3564 “discipline of the digital platforms for sharing of goods and services for the sharing economy …

The handcart has played a role of first class in the economic and cultural history of Sicily between the 18th and 19th century. There is still no Sicilian who does not know its structure and colors, and the scenes represented in it are appreciated worldwide. The handcarts were the most important tool of …

A few months ago MEETmagazine published a first article introducing the B Corps and the potential effects in the Italian entrepreneurial system in which the border between for-profit and non-profit is always more evanescent. Today we are going to tell about a further step, by analyzing the features of the “Società Benefit”, just introduced by the “Stability Law 2016”. How …

Today MEETmagazine is going to tell you about a very actual and important topic. We are going to tell you about a kind of migration not well known, unless for some news from a crazy millionnaire who is running for the USA elections. Immigration from Mexico to the United States, the history of “Migrantes” struggling to survive to be able …

The CRAC (Research Center for the Contemporary ArtS) started in Lamezia Terme as a place for research, creation and experimentation of contemporary arts such as performing arts, visual arts, architecture, cultural management. Founded by Nicoletta Grasso, who came back in Calabria after a period abroad, it is today a place where to make strategies together, understanding each other and growing from a cultural …

The GAS are ethical purchasing groups born from the initiative of citizens who gather to practice together the trade of foodstuffs, guided by ethical principles. In particular, these groups are based on a direct relationship between producers and consumers, which favors organic food, produced from small local companies and in fair working conditions. Gasdottò is an active group born in …